Trump has thrown away his chance to win over middle of the road voters with his foolish tweets . He will never be above 40 % approval.Only hope is the economy does so great people will be thrilled. Anyone think Amazon's Jeff Bezos is going to spend his tax savings on increased salaries or benefits to employees?

oh but what is good for him is good for all of us........... We will see.

Yes, it's a big, unspoken controversy here. Franken did not resign (or say, believe the women). He said he would announce resignation in the coming weeks, meaning let's wait and see.

Former MN Gov. Arne Carlson, a 'Republican', also said very publicly last week, "don't resign".

Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat not particularly affiliated with Franken or the party, went ahead and announced the recess appointment. He appointed his Lt Gov. This was quite a jab at Franken because he and I and everyone with a critical ear knows he didn't resign yet of even make his final decision.

When Franken scheduled his press conference, there is no way he intended to announce his resignation. I think he was going to give a big recovery program and can't we all learn something from this speech. Then Gillibrand, Schumer and others pressured him and he came up with the speech that left ample wiggle room. The pressure and the message was, get us through this Alabama election. And it worked.

Tina Smith the 'appointee' was referred to Gov Dayton by his biggest (only?) donor, his ex-wife Alida Rockefeller, daughter of John D Rockefeller, sister of former politician Jay Rockefeller. Smith has a nice humanitarian background of running Planned Parenthood. I wonder how many vulnerable girls, blacks and gays were killed under her watch. She was an attractive choice because she is (allegedly) smart, reliably liberal and didn't want to run for the position when it comes back up for election, leaving the real choice up to the voters.

But then one more twist, she announced she is going to run for 'reelection' for the seat she doesn't even have yet, clearing the field of Democratic challengers - all while 'Sen" Al Franken is still undecided about resigning. Musical chairs and the unfunny Senator is still standing, looking around.

ccp, the funny thing is, Minnesota Republicans would most certainly rather run against a damaged Al Franken than a fresh Tina Smith, a presumed non-groper.

Two term former Gov Tim Pawlenty is mentioned for running for the 'open' seat. Clean as a whistle, he barely gropes his own wife.

Minnesota was known as the bluest, most liberal state in the union, the only state never won by Ronald Reagan. The only upper midwest state Trump didn't flip, Hillary beat Trump here in 2016 by 1.5 points.

Republicans hoping to hang on to the Arizona Senate seat face an increasingly tumultuous primary environment, with firebrand former sheriff Joe Arpaio entering the race from the right and Rep. Martha McSally trying to win over President Trumpís supporters without alienating more moderate general election voters.

The Tuesday announcement from Arpaio, whose criminal contempt conviction Trump pardoned last year, came just days before McSally joined the primary. While Arpaio made his name as an immigration hardliner and promoter of the discredited conspiracy theory that former President Obama wasnít born in the United States, McSally is the party establishment pick meant to appeal in the general election.

A surprise loss in a special statehouse election Tuesday night in Wisconsin has set off a new round of alarm among Republicans worried that they could face a Democratic wave in this yearís midterm elections.

Democrat Patty Schachtner defeated Republican Adam Jarchow by about 10 points in Wisconsinís 10th Senate District, a seat that had been under GOP control since 2001. President Trump carried the district by 17 points in the 2016 election.

The state Senate election in Wisconsin is another damning data point for Republicans.

"The state Senate election in Wisconsin is another damning data point for Republicans."

I don't have a countering argument to the liberal take on this except that the Nov 2018 elections are not going to be held today. They will be held after people see the increase in economic growth and the impact that has on people's lives. His tweets and utterances aside, Trump and the Republicans have done a lot of policy things right.

Caught on camera, Democrats Heidi Heitkamp and Chuck Schumer give each other high fives after blocking bill to end abortions past 20 weeks, when unborn feel pain. I wonder how the unborn feel about that? (

Also supporting the filibuster that prevented a Senate vote was former Planned Parenthood leader, AL Franken replacement Tina Smith.

My guess is that Schumer has a 10% approval in North Dakota and I wouldn't be so sure that Minnesotans are 100% behind unrestricted abortions anymore. Science says it takes a life you know, and it causes pain in the process. The later abortions are the most brutal and the unborn start to look a lot like ... babies, human, alive and with separate DNA from the mother and father.

Caught on camera, Democrats Heidi Heitkamp and Chuck Schumer give each other high fives after blocking bill to end abortions past 20 weeks, when unborn feel pain. I wonder how the unborn feel about that? (

Also supporting the filibuster that prevented a Senate vote was former Planned Parenthood leader, AL Franken replacement Tina Smith.

My guess is that Schumer has a 10% approval in North Dakota and I wouldn't be so sure that Minnesotans are 100% behind unrestricted abortions anymore. Science says it takes a life you know, and it causes pain in the process. The later abortions are the most brutal and the unborn start to look a lot like ... babies, human, alive and with separate DNA from the mother and father.

Hey, someone has to show those unborn babies who's boss. Schumer is all about taking guns and killing infants.